Gone, gone the form of man. Rise the demon…ETRIGAN!
Two things: 1) I don’t know much about Etrigan the Demon other than he was a creation of Jack “The King” Kirby, is a jerk, and talks in rhyme. At least he does sometimes. So in honesty I’m not all that interested in an ongoing title starring the character. 2) While I’m a big fan of the fantasy genre I’ve never really cared about it in comic form. I’m not against it I just haven’t really found any that I was terribly interested in. Except for Bone, I suppose. So really under normal circumstances I almost certainly would have never picked Demon Knights #1 on my own. The only reason I did last week was because Paul Cornell seemed to be the only person who treated to the infamous Batgirl of San Diego Comic-Con with any sort of dignity (Read her story here) and I decided to buy this book. Also The Lady, who is the biggest Whovian I know, pointed out that Cornell apparently was also a writer for Doctor Who and she got excited.
This book was written by Cornell with art by Diogne Neves (Pencils) and Oclair Albert (Ink). The story is titled “Seven Against the Dark”. Even though I think Cornell is a rock star I have no real way of knowing if he’s any good at what he does; I never read any Doctor Who novels. So I’m jumping in pretty blind here.
Full review after the jump.
